Where has bunbot been? It would be nice if a feature was added to bunbot that upon joining the IRC he message instructions to sit tight on the IRC until someone can get to them. It happens all too often, someone joins, sees no one responding, and leaves. Of course that is moot if bunbot is not even on IRC.

standard IRC fallacy. I see it all the time. Also in other chat environments. But IRC is especially well designed for ignoring it for hours at a time, only to return later and read up on what happened in between.